Roll With the Punches

 We were starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel yesterday with green speeds back to normal and areas finally starting to firm up.  Hit or miss thunderstorms rolled through this morning, halfway through our morning mowing routine and spraying greens in preparation for heavy rains this weekend.   The curveball that was thrown at us forced us to have to change up our entire Friday preparation for the weekend.  Now that most of the mowing was not completed, additional workers will have to come in on Saturday to mow to keep growth in check.  Monday morning is a 9am shotgun, so again, we have to be off the course before 9 and with the weather, grass will be exploding.  This is called the "domino effect" where one thing (thunderstorm) effects several things for the next few days. 

Instead of preparing for the Senior Club Championship today, we were pumping, squeegeeing and repairing bunkers.  Now, a lot of mowing will have to be completed on Saturday afternoon when we have dry conditions to mow fairways, intermediates and rough.  By the end of today, the course will look and play great but its the hours after the deluge we are working hard to get play out as quickly as possible.